MCS Technician

About Us

Founded in Berlin, autarc is a ~75 person start-up who were part of Y Combinator’s S24 batch in San Francisco. Our team consists of people in Sales, Tech and Operations, with the Engineering & Product department currently ~25 people, as we continue to grow throughout the year.

Your Impact

We're looking for an MCS expert to help with our expansion into territories beyond Germany and with the UK firmly in mind.

Your role will be to fix the installer's most annoying job in helping us take the pain out of documentation, the part of every install that installers dread most. You'll pressure test our MCS flow and your first project is to go through our current MCS commissioning and handover flow with the eyes of someone who has done it on site. Tell us what's missing, what's wrong and what would never work on a real job.

You'll help us close the gap between the rules and reality, turning MCS requirements into practical product decisions, so the documents our clients produce pass inspection the first time. We want you to be our go-to for UK compliance. Over time, you'll be the person we turn to with UK market and compliance questions. You'll keep us up to date as PV and heating standards, MCS and DNO processes change.

What you bring

• Hands-on installer experience. You've worked as an installer (now or in the past) on both solar and heat pumps
• Deep MCS knowledge. You know the commissioning, handover and certification requirements inside out, and you know how they're applied in practice.
• An eye for documentation pitfalls. You know where installers usually go wrong: missing evidence, wrong or incomplete forms, failed audits, and the shortcuts that cause trouble later.
• DNO experience. You know the DNO application flow, including G98/G99 notifications and applications, and the usual reasons they get delayed.
• Up to date on regulation. You follow changes in UK PV and heating compliance and can explain what they mean for installers.
• Clear, direct communication. You can explain technical requirements to product and engineering teams who have never stood on a roof.
• Nice to have: based in the UK. We're open to remote candidates elsewhere.

What we offer

Depending on what contract set up we have (freelance, permanent, in-office or remote) we can offer a range of perks and benefits that fit your role and location.

Next steps

• A chat with our Recruiter (Louis)
• A chat with our Heating PM
• A short case study
• Final interview with leadership